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Your husband never wanted that baby,” my mother-in-law said, sliding the surrender papers toward me. I almost believed her—until I found a hidden microphone beneath my bed and heard her voice through the recording: “Once she signs, the child loses everything. If she refuses, the supplements will finish the job.” I was seven months pregnant, broke, and completely alone. At least, that was what they believed when I agreed to sign the papers before four hundred witnesses.